He lost the election, but was reluctantly appointed Chancellor by President Von Hindenberg in a move that was similar to the appointment of Bush by the Supreme Court. After Hindenberg died in office, there was no longer a pretense of the Wiemar Republic.

In October 1942, ten months after entering World War II, America was preparing its first assault against Nazi military forces. Prescott Bush was managing partner of Brown Brothers Harriman. His 18-year-old son George, the future U.S. President, had just begun training to become a naval pilot. On Oct. 20, 1942, the U.S. government ordered the seizure of Nazi German banking operations in New York City which were being conducted by Prescott Bush.

http://www.sundayherald.com/42648The US has donned rose-tinted spectacles to mourn the passing of Ronald Reagan. But Investigations Editor Neil Mackay reveals a darker story of how, under Reagan, secret deals brokered by Donald Rumsfeld with Saddam Hussein secured the dictator an arsenal of WMD

"he had the right idea, just went too far". so the comparison, down deep, to a lot of people, is not really an insult to *. they believe if he can just take over the world's oil and then stop his crusade, that will be a success

that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal" ~ Martin Luther King Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail", Whe We Can't Wait, 1963

Sorry, but that is a huge difference. Plus, Hitler had in mind territorial expansion (hence the need to exterminate large numbers of people to get their land - Bush and his cronies just want to expand oil and construction companies' profits.

That's one lesson I've learned reading the history of the rise of Nazi Germany. A common statement among germans after the war was that they didn't notice the small steps. They just woke up one day and realized how bad things had gotten.

When they're kicking in your doors is to late to start paying attention.

You folks who concentrate on the concnetration camps and genocide are missing the big picture here. While horrific, that was NOT the sum total of what Hitler did. Nor was it the first thing he did. There were a lot of steps that led up to it and enabled it.

The Reichstag Fire and 9/11; Pretexts for Dictatorship and the Fourth ReichIncludes: Parallels between the Third Reich and the Bush Regime; 9/11 and the Reichstag Fire; What was the Reichstag Fire; Nazis in America; Poland 1939, Iraq 2003 http://www.oilempire.us/reichstag-fire.html

What will you be upset at? Where is your bar of outrage? Do we need human furnaces here un US soil? Do internment camps need mass gas chambers? Do all Arab-Americans need to be rounded up and shipped off in train cars? Do all writings need to be approved by a government council of American Values? Do gay couples have to be required to wear pink triangles if they wish to have their marriaged recognized? Do all children need to enlist in the Youth Guard of the USA?

Where will YOU draw the line? Will it be when your house is being burned down? Or when your constitution is being fed into a shredder, small peice by peice, simply because no one peice is as bad as Auschwitz?

Bush is fucked, but there are significant differences between him and Hitler. Just as there are between Saddam Hussein and Hitler, a comparison Bush loved to make. As you say Hitler had in mind territorial expansion and Saddam did not. He was satisfied with terrorizing his own people.

Because, really, quite frankly, that is the only difference I can see.

And, honestly, the only reason I think Bush hasn't starting working and killing liberals, homosexuals, and minorities is because there is too much scrutiny now. He would have to go to great measures to hide it.

The comparisons here are the eroding of our freedoms and the invasions of other countries.

The eroding of freedoms did not happen overnight but they slowly did over time. And it started in the name of national security. Hitler blamed the Reichstag fire on "communists" and shortly thereafter started eliminating personal freedoms. Such a comparison to 9/11 and the Patriot Act is valid.

The invasion of Iraq is also an equal comparison to the invasion of Austria, Czechoslovaka and Poland. Hitler made it a great case that German nationals living in these countries were in great danger and he invaded these countries to "save them". Gee sounds like saving the Iraqis to me. Hitlers reasons actually sound more valid because he was saving people from his country. Or so he said. In both cases, a lot of propaganda was put forth about the need to invade. Which later turned out to be exaggerated greatly.

Either way in these 2 cases, comparisons of Bush and Hitler are valid and worth studying.

In a way, Hitler was much more straightforward about his ideology and when he preached it you could tell the mesmerizing effect it had on people. Bigotted oppressors in the U.S. have much more insidious ways of dealing with "undesirables."

Never forget the black/white personality of the Reagan/Bush I administration. While Reagan is widely celebrated for his foreign policies in ending the Cold War, domestically his administration did very little to try and head off the AIDS epedimic which killed 100s of thousands. Ignoring the problem was consciously justified as "God's wrath." Currently, Republicans are backpedaling as AIDS has spread and is now wiping out significant portions of the worldwide population.

During WWII bigotry was largely responsible for keeping Japanese-Americans in internment camps, who posed no risk as spys or terrorists.

Notice how everyone in the media first protested the use of the term "occupation" to describe our presence in Iraq, now the term is used without thinking twice. Notice also that the use of term "Islamic radical" is ever so subtly being replaced by "Islamic".

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